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Cable TV's $50-plus monthly cost may be unavoidable for sports fans and news junkies -- but if you just want a good selection of TV and movies, try a combo of these online services.

Netflix

Who it's for: The movie buff

Typical fare: "True Grit," "The African Queen," "Downton Abbey"

Thumbs up: Get instant access to newish movies, sturdy classics, and past seasons of TV series.

Thumbs down: New movies may not be available as quickly as on DVD. Many titles in Netflix's DVD library, which costs extra to use, aren't offered at all. $8/month (streaming video only); netflix.com

Hulu Plus

Who it's for: The TV junkie

Typical fare: "The Daily Show," 37 years of "Saturday Night Live," "Smiles of a Summer Night"

Thumbs up: Catch the full current season of popular network and cable shows, along with archives of past episodes and a smattering of art-house flicks.

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Much has been written lately about SEO and its convergence with social media, content marketing, and other inbound marketing techniques. While many people in the SEO field embrace the convergence of social, content, and inbound marketing strategies others remain resistant to change and convergence.

Change is something that search, digital, and in-house marketing departments need to adapt to quickly. Clients seek solutions on how to integrate SEO, social media, and content marketing. Structuring the way we present our products and services, our talent, and adapting to a more holistic way of thinking is how we help them do this.

In a recent article from the search congress in Barcelona Lee Odden from Top Rank quoted Its not SEO anymore, Its Marketing. Deal with it.

The question today is. Can people actually deal with it?

While we sit and gasp at the marvels of Facebook and Google engineering that have got us to where we are today, we often overlook for the most marvelous and complex piece over engineering ever the human brain.

With a little help from the experts we have dug a little deeper into this subject to come up with ideas, questions, and tips that may help us find easy answers to some overhyped problems on the convergence of media.

As marketers we spend lots of time talking about user behavior, buying personas, and the psychology of sharing related to our products and services, such as the psychology of sharing and the psychology of link building, social influence, audience segmentation and remarketing.

However, we spend very little looking into and analyzing our own approaches and personas.

Two different sides, or hemispheres, of the brain are responsible for different ways of thinking and as soon as we look into the difference between the left and right brain hemispheres it clearly becomes apparent why some people are more technically driven than others and why so much conflict and debate surrounds topics such as inbound media, SEO, and social media.

To put is simply and go back to basics - left-brain marketers who tend to be analytical collide with right-brained marketers who think holistically and are more open to conceptual thinking.Ring any bells?

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14-03-2012 10:26 Transcript by http://www.newsy.com BY EVAN THOMAS ANCHOR NATHAN BYRNE The physical copy of Encyclopaedia Britannica is being shelved. The venerable reference is going online-only after 244 years in print. The last edition of the encyclopedia was a 129-pound, 32-volume set printed in 2010. The New York Times says Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. is going to focus on its educational offerings and $70 per year subscription-based web encyclopedia. As MSNBC points out, the inevitable change to a digital model isn't likely to dent the company's bottom line all that much. "They were Google, think about it, before there was Google. But then Wikipedia became the research choice almost by default.... These days the book form of Britannica is just one percent of their business." And The Wall Street Journal says — trustworthiness and reliability aside, it's hard to compete with The Free Encyclopedia. "Ultimately its biggest recent challenge has come from the crowd-sourced Wikipedia which neither charges for access nor pays its contributors. That is tough competition for a commercially-run business." In any case, Drew Olanoff at The Next Web says this was only a matter of time. "To be completely honest, these print dinosaurs have been out of style since the Internet was born, which is about fifteen years now. I'm not quite sure what has taken the company so long to realize that it was losing money by continuing to print books, but either way, the time has come to say goodbye." PCWorld quotes ...

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Watertown-Mayer Schools could soon be ditching their traditional teaching methods in favor of, high tech, digital classrooms.

School officials and members of the district's new Innovation Committee have been exploring programs that would would pair each student in the district with a digital device. Such programs, called 1-to-1 programs, would go a long way toward eliminating the traditional textbook, pencil and paper-oriented approach to education.

Such programs can use any number of devices ranging from iPods to iPads and even laptops. Watertown-Mayer Superintendent Dave Marlette said no decision has been made on what device the district might actually pursue, but the district seems to be leaning toward iPads. Representatives of Apple visited the February school board meeting to give a presentation on how iPads can aid student learning and development in a technology driven world, and how 1-to-1 technology can be equally beneficial for teachers and staff.

Marlette said the Innovation Committee - which is made up of administrators, teachers, school board members and parents - is still working out some of the details as far as an official proposal is concerned. However, Marlette said he hopes to have a recommendation to the school board in time for the March 26 meeting, and hopes to have a 1-to-1 program in place for the 2012-13 school year.

"This is going to transform the classroom," Marlette said. We've been doing education the same way for the last 100 years. We bring our kids in, put them in a row, give them a pencil and paper and a book and away we go. Now, our kids go home at night and put their books away and play with their technology. We can't expect them to be excited about a book anymore."

The Innovation Committee formed after successful passage of the school district's operating levy increase in November. The additional funding - $300,000 of which was designated for technology and curriculum upgrades - gave the district the flexibility to explore its options, and Marlette said he feels

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strongly that a 1-to-1 program is the best place to start.

The district looked at models already in place in numerous other districts, mostly in the metro area, with teachers and administrators spending significant time in those districts learning how they have used technology to transform the way they teach students. The district looked most closely Minnetonka's 1-to-1 program that has had success in increasing student achievement and test scores since it was implemented roughly a decade ago.

"As we grapple with performance and accountability, this is just another way of us meeting those goals," Marlette said. "It's not even a question of if anymore, it's a question of when we move into it. It's really exploding."

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School district exploring options for 1-to-1 digital programs